State of National Calamity Declared in the Philippines due to BOPHA

DISASTER CALENDAR SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,189 Days Left 

[December 9, 2012] Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016.

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Typhoon BOPHA has made up to half million people homeless

Philippine President has declared a state of national calamity in the wake of Typhoon BOPHA [‘PABLO’] which has left about 500,000 people homeless, more than 650 dead and at least 900 others missing, the government said.

• The typhoon has destroyed much of the crops including about a fifth of the banana plantations in Mindanao.
• Davao Oriental authorities have imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew and deployed armed police to prevent looting, reports said.

Other Disasters

• United States. USDA has declared 15 counties in Minnesota and Iowa as Disaster areas due to damages and losses caused by freezing temperatures that occurred April 9-11, 2012.

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GLOBAL WARNING

• WARNING: Human impact 2.85 x Earth’s diminishing carrying capacity
• WARNING: RAPID DECLINE IN PROGRESS!
• Europe: The First Phase of Collapse Has Started 
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TY BOPHA: 250,000 Homeless, 500 Dead, 400 Missing

DISASTER CALENDAR SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,192 Days Left 

[December 6, 2012] Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016.

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Hundreds of thousands homeless as BOPHA [‘PABLO’] death toll climbs to 500

Deadly flooding and mudslides triggered by the powerful typhoon along a 700-km front has risen to at least 500 with more than 400 others reported missing and about quarter of a million people made homeless.

• At least three cities on Mindanao’s east coast remain cut off after bridges collapsed and roads were swept away by floodwater.

• The sheer numbers of refugees have overwhelmed the Philippine disaster agencies prompting  government to call for international aid to help cope with the mega disaster.

• The death toll is expected to continue rising.

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• TY BOPHA Leaves Hundreds Dead or Missing Posted December 5, 2012
• BOPHA Strikes Philippines Posted December 4, 2012
• BOPHA Intensity Estimation  December 3, 2012
• BOPHA to Plow thru Palau  December 2, 2012
• Super Typhoon BOPHA Targets Philippines  December 1, 2012

Global Disasters: Links, Forecasts and Background

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• Back to the Primordial Future
• The Fate of Energy Dinosaurs
• Mass Die-offs

• 2010 Disasters [Links to 2010 Disaster Calendar]
• Mega Disasters
• 2011 Disaster Calendar
• 2012 Disaster Calendar

GLOBAL WARNING

• WARNING: Human impact 2.85 x Earth’s diminishing carrying capacity
• WARNING: RAPID DECLINE IN PROGRESS!
• Europe: The First Phase of Collapse Has Started 
• United States: The First Phase of Collapse Has Begun

TY BOPHA Leaves Hundreds Dead or Missing

DISASTER CALENDAR SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,193 Days Left 

[December 5, 2012] Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016.

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Philippines: ‘Entire families were washed away’

Typhoon BOPHA killed at least 325 people and left 380 others missing, despite earlier mass evacuations from coastal areas.

• ‘Entire families were washed away,’ the country’s Interior Minister said after inspecting the disaster area.

• BOPHA brought torrential rain to Mindanao Island, triggering flooding and landslides.

• The typhoon destroyed tens of thousands of homes and makeshift dwellings along its path, destroying roads and bridges and other public infrastructure.

• Torrents of floodwater, mud, uprooted trees and other typhoon debris swept through schools and official building used as emergency shelters.

• ‘The waters came so suddenly and unexpectedly, and the winds were so fierce,’ the governor of Compostela Valley, the worst-hit province in Mindanao told Reuters.

• Up to half a million people remained in shelters, as disaster officials appealed for water, food and clothing.

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Related Links

• BOPHA Strikes Philippines Posted December 4, 2012

• BOPHA Intensity Estimation  December 3, 2012
• BOPHA to Plow thru Palau  December 2, 2012
• Super Typhoon BOPHA Targets Philippines  December 1, 2012

Global Disasters: Links, Forecasts and Background

• The First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
• Back to the Primordial Future
• The Fate of Energy Dinosaurs
• Mass Die-offs

• 2010 Disasters [Links to 2010 Disaster Calendar]
• Mega Disasters
• 2011 Disaster Calendar
• 2012 Disaster Calendar

GLOBAL WARNING

• WARNING: Human impact 2.85 x Earth’s diminishing carrying capacity
• WARNING: RAPID DECLINE IN PROGRESS!
• Europe: The First Phase of Collapse Has Started 
• United States: The First Phase of Collapse Has Begun

BOPHA Strikes Philippines

Typhoon BOPHA struck Baganga, Mindanao

BOPHA [“PABLO”] made landfall in eastern Mindanao, having earlier intensified to a Category 5 Super Typhoon, with winds of more than 250km/hr.

BOPHA – Enhanced IR satellite image captured December 4, 2012 @ 01:30UTC. Source: CIMSS

• Rainfall amounts of up to 30 mm of rain per hour within the 600 km diameter of the Typhoon is expected, the local weather office (PAGASA) said.

• Philippines authorities have issued multiple warnings for destructive winds, possible flashfloods and landslides.

•  Residents in coastal areas have also been warned against storm surges and waves as high as 6m.

BOPHA track and projected path –  IR satellite image. Source: CIMSS

• BOPHA Intensity Estimation  December 3, 2012
• BOPHA to Plow thru Palau Posted December 2, 2012
• Super Typhoon BOPHA Targets Philippines  Posted December 1, 2012

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• FEWW New Hurricane Scale
• Satellite Imagery

BOPHA Intensity Estimation

BOPHA: Intensity details as of 12:30 UTC

Date : 03 DEC 2012
Time : 1230 UTC
Location: 7:30:55N, 128:30:15E
Pressure: 917.7mb
Vmax: 149.0kt

Source: UW-CIMSS Automated Satellite-Based ADT

BOPHA track and projected path –  Vis/SWIR satellite image. Source: CIMSS

Typhoon BOPHA. Colorized IR image. Source: NOAA GOES Satellite.

• BOPHA to Plow thru Palau Posted December 2, 2012
• Super Typhoon BOPHA Targets Philippines  Posted December 1, 2012

Related Links

• FEWW New Hurricane Scale
• Satellite Imagery

BOPHA to Plow thru Palau

Super Typhoon BOPHA heading towards  tiny Palau

Date : 02 DEC 2012
Time : 05:15UTC
Co-ords: 6:22:55N, 136:23:31 E
Movement: 285 degrees, 12kt
Pressure: 925.4mb
Vmax: 140.0kt

Typhoon BOPHA. Colorized IR image captured at 04:30UTC on December 2, 2012. Source: NOAA GOES Satellite.

BOPHA – Enhanced IR satellite image. Source: CIMSS

BOPHA –  IR (BD enhancement) satellite image. Source: CIMSS

• Super Typhoon BOPHA Targets Philippines  Posted December 1, 2012

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• FEWW New Hurricane Scale
• Satellite Imagery

Super Typhoon BOPHA Targets Philippines

BOPHA Packing Big Punch

Typhoon BOPHA is forecast to strike Philippine Islands as a category 4C storm with sustained winds of about 238kmh and gusts of up to 275kmh [FEWW estimate is based on several models] at about 02:00UCT on  December4, 2012.

BOPHA could cause significant damage to property and infrastructure  in the coastal areas, with potential for flooding and landslides further inland.

• Storm surges of up to 10m could swamp the shoreline areas.

Typhoon BOPHA. Image Source: NOAA GOES Satellite.

BOPHA track and projected path. Source: CIMSS

Related Links

• FEWW New Hurricane Scale
• Satellite Imagery

3 million Filipinos affected by 2 typhoons

Powerful Typhoons in the Philippines Leave Tens of Thousands Without Food and Drinking Water

Most of the flooding victims refuse to evacuate flooded homes fearing looters, as Philippines government considers forced evacuations

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Disaster Calendar 2011 – October 2

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• Luzon, Philippines. Two powerful, back-to-back typhoons have left at least 60 people dead and many missing.
• About 3 million people have been affected by the widespread flooding spawned by the storms.
• Most of the victims refuse to evacuate flooded homes fearing looters, as Philippines government considers forced evacuations.
• Large areas in  many provinces have become isolated because roads are submereged under chest-high floodwater.
• “The damage bill from Typhoon Nesat stood at 6.7 billion pesos ($155 million), the disaster agency said. More than 180,000 people fled to shelters in dozens of towns north of Manila. There was no initial damage estimate for Nalgae.” Said a report.
• “We are seeing a mass exodus of people looking for food,” said the representative of World Vision’s, an international aid agency.

  “Survivors have no means to cook food. They may have money but there’s just nothing to buy.”

• Flood intensity was compounded by excess water from dams, as the authorities opened the floodgates to “release water from three dams in the Agno Basin as well as in Magat Dam in Ramon, Isabela.” a report said.
• There’s strong probability that a third typhoon may hit Luzon later this week.
• Thailand. Thailand declared two provinces as disaster areas, as flooding in the Central Plain region intensified, reports said.
• The declaration covered the entire province of Ayutthaya and a large section “of Phichit province where the Lop Buri River has overflowed, leaving many riverside communities underwater.”

• Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, SW China. Flooding triggered by Typhoon NESAT which slammed into the island province of Hainan two days ago, a report said.
• “Water from heavy downpours brought by Nesat has entered major river courses in the region, where more than 2 million people have been affected by the typhoon.“
• NESAT was the strongest typhoon to hit the region since 2005, forcing the evacuation of more than 130,000 people, the report quoted the authorities as saying.
• The typhoon has destroyed thousands of homes across 24 counties in Guangxi and damaged more than a quarter of million hectares of farmland.
• Algeria. Flooding in Algeria has left at least 10 people dead and two others missing, the authorities said
  
• Flash floods spawned by several days of torrential downpours have deluged at least two towns southwest of the capital Algiers destroying or damaging about a thousand  homes.

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Typhoon NESAT Pounds Philippines, Submerges Manila

Storm surge triggered by  NESAT inundates Philippines capital Manila, killing at least 18

NESAT struck eastern provinces of Luzon island as a category 3Bf typhoon punching winds of 200 km per hour.

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Disaster Calendar 2011 – September 27

[September 27, 2011]  Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016.  SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,632 Days Left to the ‘Worst Day’ in Human History

• Manila, Philippines. Typhoon NESAT made landfall on the eastern coast of Luzon island as a category 3Bf typhoon punching winds of 200 km per hour and a diameter of about 700 km.
• At least 18 people were killed, dozens injured and many were missing as of posting.
• The typhoon created storm surges in Manila Bay, which overflowed onto the capital,  flooding large areas of the city with more than a meter of water.
• More than a 100,000 people were evacuated as the Marikina River in metro Manila rose to nearly 20 meters (60 feet).
• The typhoon is estimated to have destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of hectares of crops.
• NESAT dumped more than an inch of water per hour in many parts of the island.
• The typhoon, weakened to a category one storm as of posting, is headed towards northern Vietnam.
• The casualty tolls from NESAT (named locally PEDRING) are expected to rise from drowning, flash floods, landslides and storm surges.

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